generation of political activist 'one of their campaign staffers in houston was a woman named barbara jordanwho goes on to become first a state senator and then a united states congresswoman and had a great repute. but this is part of her origin story. so this coalition succeeds in 1964 in reelected ralph yarborough to the senate, in re-elect lyndon johnson to the presidency and getting support in texas for him, and ultimately they transform local politics. they redraw the map of texas elections so that now, today, you have these blue inner city, central cities, surrounds by red suburbs. but they scudded in their goal of breaking down the doors of the democratic party and transforming it and using it to filing for things like equal prime minister opportunity. they helped to win the civil rights act and the roting -- voting righting a and implement them. they have to keep sitting at lunch counter and file indicate in the court. and fight in the workplace. mr. moses leroy, fighting for equal opportunity and in 1965 he has the tool eeoc and can use that to break open employment at the southern

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so i emphasize the work of shirley chisolm running for president, barbara jordan, flow kennedy, patsy mink, the first asia-american congresswoman and all of that and much more. then there's chapter that looks at the way that publishing and in particular ms. magazine circulated information to women isolate communities before internet and before instant transmission of information. and that was a lot of fun because as a writer i was eager to see the names of many old presses and newspapers in different cities immortalizees, shameless husbandy press, down there press, daughters incorporated, newspapers like big mama rag, in d.c., of course, we had off our backs. these were whimsical titles for angry feelings and they're an example of the use of language before there was cyber space to communicate imparked attachments to ideals and new ways of imagining women apart from men's version of women. then there's a chapter that is very much about the awakening of lesbian identified women and the pursuit of rights of voice, visibility, or separation and women identified music, music festivals, ar

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